social structure

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Hundreds of thousands more left the cotton fields to follow behind Union armies, depriving the Confederacy of their labor and smashing its social structure in the process.

From Washington Post

They ask how we got “stuck” with our hierarchical, and largely patriarchal, social structures, but they do not provide a clear-cut answer.

From Scientific American

Illness, he said, has social roots and must be addressed through social structures.

From New York Times

The book skewers the notion that the challenges women face in work, sex, relationships and parenting can be chalked up to self-esteem, rather than to social structures.

From New York Times

That’s among the fears stoking the white supremacy movement, the so-called “white replacement theory” that people of color will supplant whites in the country’s power dynamics and social structure.

From Seattle Times